Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread Rui Salvaterra
A domingo, 10/05/2020, 15:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> escreveu: > > Ah, right. I was checking the 64-bit kernel only which doesn't have it as > it's a feature specific to G3 and G4 CPUs: > > root@kapitsa:/boot# uname -a > Linux kapitsa 5.5.0-2-powerpc64 #1 SMP Deb

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/10/20 4:30 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > A domingo, 10/05/2020, 15:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < > glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> escreveu: > >> On 5/10/20 3:06 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: >> >> We can still enable it, nevertheless [1]. >> > > It's already enabled in the Debian kernel. I just n

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread Rui Salvaterra
Hi again, Adrian, A domingo, 10/05/2020, 15:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> escreveu: > On 5/10/20 3:06 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > > We can still enable it, nevertheless [1]. > It's already enabled in the Debian kernel. I just noticed the dmesg message stating that

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/10/20 3:06 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: >> Can you find out the exact name of the kernel config option for me? >> >> It must be a string that starts with "CONFIG_". >> > > Sure, it's CONFIG_TAU. But as I wrote before, I found the 7447A errata, and > it doesn't have a TAU. We can still enable it

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread Rui Salvaterra
Hello again, A domingo, 10/05/2020, 14:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> escreveu: > > Can you find out the exact name of the kernel config option for me? > > It must be a string that starts with "CONFIG_". > Sure, it's CONFIG_TAU. But as I wrote before, I found the 7

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Rui! On 5/10/20 2:04 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: >> If you let me know which kernel option in particular needs to be enabled >> for that, I can do that. I had a brief look and couldn't find an option >> which included the name "TAU". > > Oops! I just found the 7447A errata [1] and this CPU doesn

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 01:09:58PM +0100, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > Hi, Gabriel, > > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 12:37, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > > > I suspect the PowerMac6,7 is a 32 bit machine, given what you say below. > > Yes, of course, sorry for not being more explicit. :) > > > Well, extremel

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread Rui Salvaterra
Hi, Gabriel, On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 12:37, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > I suspect the PowerMac6,7 is a 32 bit machine, given what you say below. Yes, of course, sorry for not being more explicit. :) > Well, extremely low is a bit of an exaggeration. On 32 bit x86, lowmem > is 896MB. This is only

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread Rui Salvaterra
Hi, Paul! On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 12:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I suggest filing a bug report with plymouth upstream. Although it could > also be a kernel bug. Did you check the upstream bug trackers? > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plym

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:06:30PM +0100, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > Hi, everyone! > > I'm running Debian powerpc/ppc64 on a couple of PowerPC machines > (PowerMac6,7 and PowerMac11,2) and the GRUB installation seems to be > working perfectly, huge kudos to everyone involved! I suspect the PowerMac6

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Rui! On 5/10/20 1:06 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > Plymouth colours look wrong (only tested on the 6,7, the 11,2 is headless > atm), probably a framebuffer endiannes issue? I suggest filing a bug report with plymouth upstream. Although it could also be a kernel bug. Did you check the upstream bu

Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

2020-05-10 Thread Rui Salvaterra
Hi, everyone! I'm running Debian powerpc/ppc64 on a couple of PowerPC machines (PowerMac6,7 and PowerMac11,2) and the GRUB installation seems to be working perfectly, huge kudos to everyone involved! So, apart from the big one in $SUBJECT (Linux 5.6.11 seems fine; I'm running a custom kernel, let